American entomology, or, Descriptions of the insects of North America : illustrated by coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature (1824)
Author: Say, Thomas, 1787-1834; Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885, ill; Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846, ill; Wood, W. W., fl. 1825-1830, ill; Bridport, Hugh, 1794-ca. 1868, engraver; Lang, George S., b. 1799, engraver; Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869, engraver; Tiebout, Cornelius, 1777-1832, engraver; Fischer von Waldheim, Gotthelf, 1771-1853, former owner DSI; Hay, William Perry, 1872-1947, former owner. DSI; Middleton, A. J., inscriber. DSI; Barber, Herbert Spencer, 1882-1950, former owner DSI
Volume: v. 2
Subject: Insects; Insects; Entomology
Publisher: [Philadelphia] : Published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, for sale by Anthony Finley, corner of Fourth and Chesnut St., William Brown, printer
Year: 1824
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 39088014412852
Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian
Book contributor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: biodiversity; smithsonian; americana
Notes: Cullman Library (rare book)
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"Six plates of the present volume, together with their accompanying text, were printed off in the year 1817, but as they were never properly published, it has been thought advisable to include them in the present work"--V. 1, p. vii
"Philadelphia Museum."
Vol. 1 has an added engraved t.p., signed: C.A. Le Sueur del
Plates illustrated by T.R. Peale, C.A. Lesueur, and W.W. Wood; and engraved by H. Bridport, G. Lang, Longacre, and C. Tiebout
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration
Horn & Schenkling. Index litt. entomologiae
SCNHRB has v. 1 (39088014412761) and v. 2 (39088014412852), only. Plate 19 is wanting; an extra copy of plate 21 is bound in v. 2. Some of the plates have closely cropped edges and are wanting their plate numbers
SCNHRB copy has stamps: Smithsonian Library, Jan. 13, 1956; Smithsonian Institution, U.S. National Museum, H.S. Barber Collection. Accession nos.: v. 1, 352407; v. 2, 352408
SCNHRB copy has ms. ink inscriptions in v. 1: W.P. Hay, Aug. 30, 1940; Pour son excellens Monsr. Gotthelf Fischer de la part de A.J. Middleton
SCNHRB copy has red buckram library bindings with gilt-lettered spines and gray endpapers
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